Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon on Thursday registered newly-eligible ex-felons to vote after a law ...

The new law allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they are not currently incarcerated. It expands voting ...

Michigan has the highest number of juvenile lifers in the country. Advocates are pushing for laws that would ban sentencing ...

Around 1,100 of the 1,709 Wisconsinites in prison for crimes they committed as youth were convicted of offenses they committed when they were 17 years old, the report found, using data it obtained ...

The leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers group was ordered to serve 18 years in prison for his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol and conspiring to use force to keep Donald Trump in power ...

A three-judge panel on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Arkansas' 2021 U.S. House map, ruling that opponents of the ...

Nevada is considering several bills protecting transgender rights. But Gov. Joe Lombardo hasn’t indicated whether or not he ...

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world, looked to many observers like the catalyst ...

GOP-held Texas state House sets Saturday afternoon vote on impeachment of Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

At a celebration of Minnesota’s new law that restores voting rights to people who have left prison, Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon registered newly eligible voters Thursday, when the law ...